SQL Contract Job Trends in Bristol

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 18 29
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing SQL 86 58 47
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.40% 7.89% 5.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.30% 30.53% 17.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 49 34
10th Percentile £324 £357 £350
25th Percentile £406 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £494
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -11.39% -2.47%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £613
90th Percentile £675 £575 £725
South West median daily rate £530 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +17.78% -10.00% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £30.55 - -
25th Percentile £43.91 - £25.26
Median hourly rate £53.83 - £27.13
75th Percentile £55.94 - £28.99
90th Percentile £57.63 - -
South West median hourly rate £53.83 £36.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +49.53% +20.00% -52.19%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 327 190 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 24.33% 25.85% 30.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 107 123
10th Percentile £394 £317 £365
25th Percentile £450 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £625 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 46 73
10th Percentile £55.38 £63.75 £65.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.69 -
90th Percentile - £75.00 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £67.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year -4.06% -3.21% +7.69%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SQL job vacancy trend in Bristol

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.98%) Confluence
2 3 (3.49%) Apache
2 3 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.33%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.16%) Traefik
Applications
1 11 (12.79%) Spreadsheet
2 7 (8.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (8.14%) NEC Housing
1 7 (8.14%) Oracle Payroll
2 3 (3.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.33%) Maximo
4 1 (1.16%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.93%) Power Platform
2 16 (18.60%) GCP
3 15 (17.44%) AWS
3 15 (17.44%) dbt
4 14 (16.28%) Azure
5 11 (12.79%) Snowflake
6 10 (11.63%) OCI
7 7 (8.14%) Power Automate
8 5 (5.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (5.81%) Cloud Composer
8 5 (5.81%) Entra ID
8 5 (5.81%) PowerApps
8 5 (5.81%) Vertex AI
9 4 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (4.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (4.65%) Azure Functions
9 4 (4.65%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (4.65%) Cloud Functions
9 4 (4.65%) Cloud Run
9 4 (4.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) DNS
2 4 (4.65%) WAN
3 2 (2.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.93%) Power BI
2 8 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (9.30%) Tableau
3 7 (8.14%) Relational Database
4 6 (6.98%) RDBMS
5 5 (5.81%) BigQuery
5 5 (5.81%) Looker
5 5 (5.81%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (4.65%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.65%) GIS
6 4 (4.65%) Oracle Database
7 3 (3.49%) Metadata
8 2 (2.33%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.33%) Power Query
8 2 (2.33%) Spatial Data
9 1 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.16%) Big Data
9 1 (1.16%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (1.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 8 (9.30%) JIRA
2 4 (4.65%) Liquibase
3 2 (2.33%) Git
3 2 (2.33%) GitLab
4 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle Forms
General
1 17 (19.77%) Public Sector
2 15 (17.44%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (11.63%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.98%) Finance
5 3 (3.49%) Banking
5 3 (3.49%) Local Government
6 2 (2.33%) Marketing
7 1 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (26.74%) Developer
2 21 (24.42%) Data Engineer
3 19 (22.09%) Senior
4 16 (18.60%) Oracle Developer
5 10 (11.63%) Architect
5 10 (11.63%) Software Developer
6 8 (9.30%) Analyst
6 8 (9.30%) GCP Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) Applications Support
7 7 (8.14%) GCP Data Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) AWS Data Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Senior Applications Support
8 6 (6.98%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Support Officer
9 5 (5.81%) GCP Architect
9 5 (5.81%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Snowflake Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) BigQuery Architect
10 4 (4.65%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.44%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (10.47%) Terraform
3 4 (4.65%) HTML
3 4 (4.65%) REST
3 4 (4.65%) SOAP
4 3 (3.49%) JSON
5 2 (2.33%) .NET
5 2 (2.33%) JDBC
5 2 (2.33%) Kafka
5 2 (2.33%) Middleware
5 2 (2.33%) XML
6 1 (1.16%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.16%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.16%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.16%) JMS
6 1 (1.16%) OAuth
6 1 (1.16%) OpenID
6 1 (1.16%) React
6 1 (1.16%) RESTful
6 1 (1.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.49%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (3.49%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.33%) Clustering
4 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.16%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.16%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.81%) Linux
2 1 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (38.37%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (34.88%) Data Modelling
3 27 (31.40%) Data Engineering
3 27 (31.40%) DevOps
4 25 (29.07%) Analytics
5 18 (20.93%) AI
5 18 (20.93%) Decision-Making
6 16 (18.60%) Agile
7 15 (17.44%) ETL
7 15 (17.44%) Validation
8 13 (15.12%) Data Pipeline
8 13 (15.12%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (12.79%) Software Engineering
11 10 (11.63%) CI/CD
11 10 (11.63%) Information Security
12 9 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (10.47%) Visualisation
13 8 (9.30%) Data Architecture
13 8 (9.30%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 22 (25.58%) Python
2 21 (24.42%) PL/SQL
3 7 (8.14%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (3.49%) Java
6 2 (2.33%) C#
7 1 (1.16%) Bash
7 1 (1.16%) LookML
7 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 16 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.47%) Degree
4 3 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.16%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.60%) Data Quality
2 10 (11.63%) QA
3 8 (9.30%) GDPR
4 2 (2.33%) PMO
5 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (4.65%) Virtual Desktop
1 4 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.33%) Docker
3 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.49%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.33%) Ansible
3 1 (1.16%) CASB
3 1 (1.16%) Istio
Vendors
1 24 (27.91%) Oracle
2 13 (15.12%) Microsoft
3 11 (12.79%) Google
4 7 (8.14%) NEC
5 5 (5.81%) Databricks
6 3 (3.49%) Facebook
6 3 (3.49%) IBM
6 3 (3.49%) SAP
6 3 (3.49%) webMethods
7 2 (2.33%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.33%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.16%) Alteryx